How much of the traction was because of this thread? I didn't know about it until I saw this pinned to the top of /r/NBA and i had to track down what little info I could via a few re-tweeted pics from a deleted Twitter account without any context.

They don't have to not allow it, of course. I still think this megathread was the wrong move and got a lot of people wildly speculating and stirring rumors on this today who otherwise wouldn't have if there wasn't an /r/NBA metathread about it.